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Thanks again! I'm old enough now to be pickled for safe keeping!

Cheers,
Norm.

Thanks folks. I am indulging in some wine!

Cheers,
Norm.

Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday dear meeeeeeee.
Happy birthday to me!



I think I did this last year too.

Unfortunately, Wolfgang's documentation describes the raw binary format expected by config. Tony's macros, however (which are a bit fragile and not absolutely obvious to use) are not described there. I seem to recall my original QPTR documentation had some description of the config macros, but more...

The official documentation for Config may also help. It's downloadable from Wolfgang's web site at https://www.wlenerz.com/qlstuff/Config.zip.

Cheers,
Norm.

Hi T0nyt, you asked about using config as a QL best practice. You don't have to! My suggestion was simply a feeble attempt at humour. Sorry. However, as relates to your "menu" system, you will always be LRUNning the same S*BASIC program, so no need for a config block. However, if this was ...

And, for your next iteration, add a config block so that the command to be typed in is configurable without having to edit and reassemble the code! :D :D :D :D By the way, there was nothing wrong with your code, it worked. My comments were there to point you at "better" QDOS specific stuff...

If I may comment.... 1. In QDOS/SMSQ, strings are defined this way, with a leading word determining the length, followed by the characters of the string. runcmd dc.w cmdEND-runcmd-2 dc.b 'lrun win1_menu',$0A cmdEND equ * Doing it this way means never having to count characters when you change the st...

I agree 100% with what Dilwyn said.


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Norm.

Nice!

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Norm.